SHAVES with a traditional cut-throat razor are making a comeback at a Bolton barber's shop.

Young men are enjoying an old-fashioned hot towel and lather de-whiskering at Dean Cocozza's shop in Deansgate.

Wielding the razor is 25-year-old Ayhan Gungor, a trained barber who learned the art in his native Turkey.

Mr Cocozza said of the shaving technique: "No-one else does this -- it is a trend that died out in the late 1960s."

The 32-year-old is a Boltonian with Sicilian blood who went to Harper Green High School, Farnworth.

After a spell in the army, he trained as a barber's apprentice at Jonathan's in Clifton and opened a shop in Plodder Lane when he was 18.

But he worked as a psychiatric ward nursing auxiliary at Bolton General Hospital for three years after injuring his wrist playing football.

He then worked as a barber at Washington's in Central Street.

In 2000 he moved to his Deansgate shop, which opens at 6.30am weekdays and 5.30am on Saturdays -- and Mr Cocozza boasts that he caters for policemen, postmen, doctors, firemen, night-shift workers and insomniacs.